Annually NCSSM presents a two-day conference, Teaching Contemporary Mathematics. The program includes ideas for precalculus and calculus that incorporate technology, realistic applications, mathematical modeling, and student involvement. Topics relevant to the AP Statistics Curriculum are also be addressed. Conference presentations and activities help participants enhance their everyday teaching through the use of the computer or graphing calculator and through an introduction to content and pedagogy that enables students to become active mathematical learners and problem-solvers. Ideas are applicable to precalculus and calculus as well as algebra II, and statistics. For more information, go to the Teaching Contemporary Mathematics website.

The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics has been hosting an annual conference focused on current issues in ethics and leadership since 1998. Hundreds of high school students attend the conference each year with their teachers or other adult chaperones. The conference agenda is designed so that schools within a two hour drive of Durham can board activity buses after their students arrive for class and get to NCSSM in time to register; and the students can leave in time to meet a school bus that will take them home. For more information, go to http://www.ncssm.edu/ethics.

The NC Student Academy of Science (NCSAS) is the pre-college student branch of the NC Academy of Science.  NCSAS is coordinated by NCSSM and holds its annual meeting and state competition here.  In addition NCSAS holds regional competitions throughout the state in which 6th-12th grade students submit papers and do oral presentations on research they have completed, with the strongest projects being certified to compete at the State level.  Each year approximately 125 students, their families and their teachers attend the state competition.  In addition to other awards, winners at the State level are invited to attend the American Association for the Advancement of Science/American Junior Academy of Science meetings the following year. NCSAS papers are judged by research professionals, who provide written feedback as well as verbal advice regarding the students' work.  NCSAS also administers a small grant program to defray costs of some projects. For information, go to http://www.ncsas.org/.